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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52256	The compleat arithmetician, or, The whole art of arithmetick, vulgar and decimal in a plain and easie method, suitable to the meanest capacity : in which the multiplication and division of numbers of several denominations, and the rule of alligation are more fully explained than in any treatise of this nature, yet extant / by J.N., Philomath.	Newton, John, 1622-1678.	1691 (1691)	Wing N1054; ESTC R4290	77,995	206

THE Compleat Arithmetician Or the whole Art of Arithmetick VULGAR and DECIMAL In a Plain and Easie Method suitable to the Meanest Capacity In which the Multiplication and Division of Numbers of Several Denominations and the Rule of Alligation are more fully explained than in any Treatise of this Nature yet Extant By J. N. Philomath LONDON Printed for Iohn Taylor at the Ship and Christopher Browne at the Globe in S. Paul's Church-Yard M DC XCI TO THE Right Honourable IOHN Lord Viscount SCUDAMORE My Lord THough it must be acknowledged that the Latine and Greek tongues are necessary qualifications for all Gentlemen and persons of Honour yet do I not think them so for all persons of a low degree especially if the labouring for them shall occasion the neglect of other more useful studies in reference to their livelyhood and yet attain to so little perfection in them that the very rudiments of them are in a very little time wholly forgotten also and therefore methinks another way of instructing youth than the Latine Grammar should be thought on at least for such whose present fortunes and future imployments will not in any likelyhood require the knowledge of exotick Languages To this purpose it hath been my endeavour to effect two things for this Town of Ross namely to procure a competent maintenance for Gods Minister there that so the people may be instructed in the principles of religion and true piety and some endowment for an English School by which means the Children may be the easier taught what Religion is as well as instructed in those Arts and Sciences which will conduce to their more comfortable subsistance and present being The first of these by Gods blessing and the assistance of your no less truly religious than Honourable Grandfather is now effected to the Glory of God in all future ages and had it pleased God to have spared him to us yet a little longer his favourable countenance and assistance would not have been wanting in the other very sensible he was that Arithmetick and Geometry are very necessary Arts for the common sort of people to be instructed in as well as for those that act in a higher Sphear and that they might be so I have now composed this brief and plain Treatise of Arithmetick in such a Method as will I hope prove useful even for Children of but seaven years of age for their instruction in that Science and as a thankful acknowledgement of the great kindness of your Honourable Grandfather to me personally but chiefly in assisting me to bring in the Tithes of Ross Brampton and Weston in this County of Hereford to the Church I did intend to send this little treatise into the world in his name but since Gods providence in removing him to a better place and more lasting Honour hath made my intentions frustrate whither should I go or unto whom should I address my self but to you who have succeeded him in his Honour and fortunes and given great hopes to the world of succeeding him in his vertues also whose great bounty to the Clergy in the time of their sequestration to several Churches since his Majesties happy restauration not only in endowing them with those Tithes which the Law made his and purchasing others but building convenient and beautiful habitations for the several Incumbents in those places his great charity to all in want and care to put them into such ways of living as might make them comfortably to subsist as his bounty in this particular to the City of Hereford doth witness seconded with his exemplary piety both in publick and private will proclaim his worth and make his name to be very precious in all succeeding generations And now what shall I say more but for as much as the eyes of all men are upon you and that you have succeeded this Honourable and much lamented Patriot of our Country as Elisha succeeded Elijah I will only pray that a double portion of his spirit may be upon you that the Glory of our Countrey may not together with him depart from us as it did from Israel when the Ark of the Lord was taken from them God I hope will not only continue but augment your Glory and the Glory of our Country by making you to be instrumental for his may your days be many and your death Glorious may it be with you as it was with David and your Honourable Grandfather may you die in a good old Age full of days riches and honour and your Son succeed you so prayeth Your Honours devoted servant JOHN NEWTON TO THE READER I Have but lately under the Title of School pastime presented thee with the Rudiments of Grammar for our own tongue as the first part of an English Academy and loe here according to what was promised in that little book thou hast the second also which is a short treatise of Arithmetick and for my thus doing two things may possibly be demanded of me or objected against me first what need there was of any new Treatise of this kind there being such great variety thereof already and secondly why I place it next to Grammar since the Liberal Sciences are usually reckoned up in another order To which I answer that among all those English Treatises of Arithmetick there is but one that I know of or do at present remember viz. Mr. Wingates in which the Rules of Arithmetick are propounded in any Logical Method and methinks it is very convenient if not necessary that the Rules in every Science should be Methodically handled and this I confess is so exactly well performed in that I but now mentioned especially in the second Edition thereof in the year 1650 that though by reason of the several Phantasies of several men something may be altered there is but little that can be amended but the bulk and price is such that I fear but few parents will be willing to be at the charge of it especially for such striplings as I would have instructed in this science for I know no reason why a young Lad that can but read his Psalter should not be instructed in the Rudiments of Grammar and the Art of Arithmetick and whether this were not a likelier way to teach them to spell the words they hear as well as those they see and so by consequence enable them to write truly as well as read distinctly than by learning a Latine Grammar I leave to thy judgment to determine Were Children in their Infancy acquainted with the Art of numbering there is nothing in that nature would be difficult to them in their riper years and that they may be so I have in this Treatise at least as I hope very plainly as well as briefly and orderly set down the most useful rules of this necessary and most excellent Science and would but our English Schoolmasters put it to the tryal I doubt not but that the success would answer all reasonable expectations for sure there can